Albums Quotes - Page 38

• We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.

  Scott Borchetta

  Waiting, Fans, Genius

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• I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Book, Reading

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• The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

  Fergie

  Inspiration, Gun, Ducks

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• I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Beautiful, Song, Sides

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• I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Expression, Would Be, Influence

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• No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Two, Piano

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• I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

  Paula Cole

  Diaries

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• Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

  Adam Duritz

  Song, Successful, Years

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• Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Names, Firsts

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• Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Audience, Performances

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• How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Hate, Men

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• I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

  Jimmy Page

  Structure, Made, Should

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• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Artist, Able, Producers

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• My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

  Warren Zevon

  Firsts, Terrible

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• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  Warren Zevon

  Firsts, Stage, Demos

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• Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

  Billy Crystal

  Dad, Home, Style

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Writing, Years

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• One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.

  Todd Rundgren

  Song, Years, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

  Lester Bangs

  Couple, Mean, Independent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

  Colin Hay

  Cutting, Thinking, Listening

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• I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Fake

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

  Anita Baker

  Age, Firsts, Ripe

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• I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

  Chuck D

  Song, Believe, Release

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2001.

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• I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

  Roberta Flack

  Done, Firsts, Enough

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